Abstract:By synthesizing the advantages of various surveying systems at home and abroad,a simply-operated highly automatic visual surveying system was developed with a characteristic of automatic shield tunneling guiding survey visualization and engineering dynamic management visualization.The system was applied to the railway construction.Result shows that the surveying system is convenient,accurate and feasible to automatically accomplish the whole measurement task.Based on the visual information of the correlations offered by the system about the TPM site and the building around,accidents caused by surroundings during the tunnel construction can be avoided.